Mini Gas Pump

Mini Gas Pump allows the pumping of Gases in smaller quantities than the Gas Pump. Plastic is required to construct a Mini Gas Pump.

Bad Choice for Moving Large Volumes of Gas
The Mini Gas Pump uses four times less power than the Gas Pump and is half the size, but only pumps 10% as much gas, making it less space and energy efficient overall. It is definitely not suitable for moving large volumes of gas where there is a lot of it.

Use In Evacuating Pockets/Cavities
The value of this device is revealed when evacuating a sealed cavity for just once. Before describing its advantages, its disadvantages have to be prefaced.

Disadvantage

 * Firstly, as it is made of plastic, it melts at 160 °C and hence it cannot be used in hot environments. Furthermore, it has an overheat temperature of 75 °C, making it unsuitable for hot environments, at least in the long term. In other words, it should not be used for repeatedly evacuating pockets.

Advantages

 * In the short-term, the low thermal conductivity of Plastic means that the pump heats very slowly; as long as it is not next to a hot solid object (especially Radiant Liquid Pipes), it can evacuate places like a formerly steam-filled cavity that a Thermo Aquatuner has been heating before it can even overheat.
 * Where the regular Gas Pump is power-inefficient in moving the last few miligrams and micrograms of gas, the Mini Gas Pump is much more efficient.
 * The Mini Gas Pump can be rotated 360 degrees, unlike the standard Gas Pump which cannot be rotated at all.
 * This makes the device easier to remove after evacuating cavities; if it has been placed in a nook of the cavity, that nook can be sealed off through diagonal tile-building after the device has done its work.
 * The Mini Gas Pump can pump gas from all the cells it covers, unlike the standard Gas Pump which cannot pump from the top right cell it occupies. This makes the Mini Gas Pump much more efficient at producing a Vacuum environment.

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